Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[xAnnex]

+1 to this thread. Please add male Viera and female Hrothgar!

[Seiena]

I feel like if the Miqo'te are allowed to have males now, and the Roedygan are allowed to have Females. We should work on changing the Lore for Viera men. This isn't FF12, this isn't tactics, this is Eorzea, we should be allowed to have a special case for non-gender locks, in the form of a similar yet completely different race. Male and female Viera pretty much have zero contact with each other beyond required relations for breeding and trade from what I can see, why are they limited to the forest? There is nothing about them that says in Eorzea males can't catch wanderlust like the rest of us.

Also it might make things more interesting in the RP sector if the default cultural nature of male Viera is basically saiyan warriors....no really when I read the wiki statement "The male viera are secretive, vicious, skilled hunters and are so well adapted to living in viera forests no one aside from female viera has ever seen one. " I got in my head that they probably think a lot like Vegeta. It might not be a terrible idea to introduce a male race that is wholly aggressive in their belief that they are truly the greatest hunters in all existence.

[Gyrovague]

Just here to voice my support for unlocking the gender locks.

I would love male Viera and hoped to race change as soon as they came out. I was disappointed that it isn't part of this expansion.

[Kyuuen]

Don't fall for obvious bait people, especially low quality bait. Simply report them for trying to incite fights/arguments and trolling. Really isn't worth derailing the thread over them.

[XaelaUnion]

Please implement male Viera/female Hrothgar sometime! I've been Au Ra male since Heavensward and wanted to fantasia over to Viera male because it seemed very likely when Viera were announced (and given the concept art of the race for HW). It was very disappointing to hear races would be gender locked again after 1.0. I hope the dev team please reconsiders.

[ShaneAlenko]

Just lending my support for male Viera here. I hope everyone that wanted to play as one get to in the not so distant future (and hopefully at some point during the expansion).

[Hybrid43]

In the year of 2019 genderlocking (and even racelocking and classlocking) should be thrown out with the rest of the bad game design choices from the past.

If it was a matter of running out of time or running into a lot of technical and animation issues for the two races, that's one thing, but the least we could be told is that the excluded gender will come out at a later date when it has met their standards. A lot of people who support the choice use the lore as an example and everyone who doesn't has made the argument a thousand times that lore has always taken a backseat. Male Miqo'te, White Mages, Dark Knights, etc.

While the developers of FFXIV have given me no real reason to have concern for this, other games and their developers have. Often slowly taking bits and pieces out of a core game and then selling it to you later on through their game stores. I for one am a little concerned that the genderlocking is only temporary, just to find out a month or two months after the DLC launch that you can get male viera and the female hrothgar through the store by dropping another $10, $15, $20 or so on it. Like I said FFXIV SPECIFICALLY, has never give me a reason to think this would happen in their game but it does happen in other games and no developer is above industry influence and trends.

We got male Miqo’te and female Roe’s because Yoshi P. Said he hated genderlocking and now to see this is disheartening. I can’t understand what people mean by wanting to see ‘something new’ done with the races, genderlocking is not a new concept at all and I think most people would like a choice rather than invasive lore determining how you choose to play said game. I believe even the players of BDO hate it just as much as we do - but at least they have the excuse of going into it knowing it well beforehand.


TL;DR; I SUPPORT BUFF CAT GIRLS AND SLEEK BUNNY BOIS. :3

[Lavenbun]

Male Viera would be a dream come true to me! I've been dying to be a bun for so long in this game. They're my favorite animal and it would make me so happy to be able to be one that would resemble me most. Also female Hrothgar would be a lovely addition too. The choice is very important to many and to have a gender locked away definitely feels like a step back. Plus this isn't the same game as ff12/tactics. I'm sure they could make it fit into the lore somehow like they've done with other things in the past.

+1 for bunny boys and lion girls!

[HydeUke]

+1 for male viera!

[Empyrean]

Gender locking was a mistake back when Miqo'te, Roegadyn, and highlanders were gender locked, it's a mistake now. Please create female hrothgar and male viera.